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The last of the Reserve Good Conduct Medals to be authorized, [3] the U.S. Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal (ARCAM), [4] was established by the Secretary of the Army on 3 March 1971 [3] and amended by Department of the Army General Orders 4, in 1974. The Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal was originally awarded for exemplary ...
While the Air Force uses oak leaf clusters for the Air Medal, since the Vietnam War, the Army has used 3 ⁄ 16-inch (4.8 mm) bronze Arabic numerals to denote subsequent awards, in which case the ribbon denotes the first award and numerals starting with the numeral "2" denote additional awards.
The last single service award was issued in 1960 when Congress authorized the awarding of the Four Chaplains' Medal recognizing the Four Chaplains who died together during World War II. [6] There have been no single service awards issued since by the U.S. military, mainly due to the decline and complications of awarding commemorative service ...
The Good Conduct Medal is one of the oldest military awards of the United States Armed Forces.The U.S. Navy's variant of the Good Conduct Medal was established in 1869, the Marine Corps version in 1896, the Coast Guard version in 1923, the Army version in 1941, and the Air Force version in 1963; the Air Force Good Conduct Medal was temporarily discontinued from February 2006 to February 2009 ...
After the Spanish–American War, however, medals in the U.S. Army fell into disuse and, apart from a few peacetime Medal of Honor decorations, two medals for service in Mexico, or on the border, during the period 1911–17, plus the Civil War Campaign Medal and the Indian Campaign Medal, both finally authorized in 1907, there were no further ...
Award streamer Streamer name Operation Date awarded Reference Presidential Unit Citation Badge: SAR/DRR Ops, TS Ketsana: 4 February 2010: General Orders No. 112, GHQ-AFP, dtd 04 Feb '10 Presidential Unit Citation Badge: General Elections, Philippines: 1 July 2010: General Orders No. 641, GHQ-AFP, dtd 1 July '10
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The medal is considered a successor award to the Naval Reserve Medal and the Marine Corps Reserve Ribbon, which were discontinued in 1958 and 1965, respectively. If the medal is awarded for periods of service, it is accompanied by an hourglass device. Depending on the length of service, a bronze, silver, gold, or bronze and gold hourglass are ...